McKelvey Woods Park, Maryland Heights

Location: 2480 McKelvey Woods Ct., Maryland Heights MO 63043 (next to Aquaport and Dogport)

Website: https://www.marylandheights.com/departments/parks_and_recreation/city_parks___trails.php

Playground Ground Cover: Poured rubber

Located just north of Aquaport, in front of Dogport the dog park, this tiny park features a playground, a small pavilion, and restrooms.  There is no sign for the park, but if you see the Dogport sign you're there because they're right next to each other.  The play structure has a few slides, a tunnel, a bridge, and a tic-tac-toe board.

 

 

The bathrooms doors are on the backside of this building

Parkwood Park, Maryland Heights

Location: 3145 Parkwood Ln, Maryland Heights, MO 63043

Website: https://www.marylandheights.com/departments/parks_and_recreation/city_parks___trails.php

Playground Ground Cover: Poured Rubber

This playground has a few slides, a bridge, 2 baby swings, 2 sling swings, and various other poles and bars. Also in the park is a paved walking trail with fitness stations, a small pavilion, and bathrooms in the back of the pavilion.

Pavilion with bathrooms

Thies Farm (Pumpkinland), Maryland Heights

Location: 14101 Creve Coeur Airport Rd, Maryland Heights, MO 63146

Amenities: Pumpkinland play area, pumpkins, pony rides, face painting, farm animals 

Website: https://thiesfarmandmarket.com/pumpkinland

Pumpkinland is a ton of fun! The Pumpkinland play area is $9 for children 2-14 and $7 for age 15+ (2023 season pricing). It is open throughout the week and contains slides, hay bale mazes, tire merry-go-rounds, swings, a zipline, a tractor hayride, a small corn maze, a pirate ship playhouse, and more. Depending on how active your kids are, you could easily spend a couple hours here in Pumpkinland.

Just for clarification purposes, there are TWO different Thies farm companies. Thies Farm was owned by 2 brothers but they split up, so one is now Thies Farm and Market (Maryland Heights) and one is Thies Farm and Greenhouses (Hanley and St. Charles).  All of them have Pumpkinlands and they're all very similar (St. Charles is much smaller than the other 2 locations).

Tractor ride 

On weekends, Thies Farm also offers pony rides (extra fee) and face painting (extra fee), and there are farm animals that you can see for free - sheep, a pig, a cow, and a llama. They also have pumpkins that kids can decorate (extra fee).

Ziplines